JOTTINGS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6624, 16 February 1900, Page 3

JOTTINGS.

• efT* 11'1"^ ',' war notes" in the Dunedin I-- ■■■■ £ ta£ Colonel Morris says:—Majr - - liobin ia an ideal cavalry officer, •' ao '■; has taken pains to study his profrssion ■;v»"of arms. He has carefully wo'-^ed up - ;,."the details of outpost duties- patrolling, -videttes and scouting. Ma>Jor Robin, in ,-. .' his .1 Notes on Detach*^ -Duties in the . Mounted Service, la".ys down the rule ,--that "patrols shoiJ-'"s":iiot return by the . ■•' .same route the^y'came out by, as they ■ May have^cieen seen and waited for •cornin&jvack.1' * (p. 19). Neglect of this . J^kviiple and '"vvell-known rule brought """- about J*he-'disaster to the patrol of the New South Wales Lancers, when they -•had several men killed and the rest taken prisoners, a few weeks ago. Dr Gavin Brown Clark, 'upon whom - „ the Carthness-shire electors recently ";:-.'■ passed a vote" of censure, was until lately *s - Consul-General in London for the South African Republic. On New Year's Day (says the London Standard's correspondent at Frere) the enemy inquired, by heliograph, " Why is Roberts coming ? What has Buller done ?" The answer returned to them, by the same means, was, " How did you like our lyddite in the late battle ?" The Boer signallers replied with a single word " Rats," to which echo answers <( Eats."

Owing to two men of the Shropshire regiment not giving the password correctly, they were shot ..dead by a comrade on sentry at Modder river. The rentry went mad.

There are about 250 Britishers ia Bloemfontein who have received permits to stay. A striking illustration of the spirit animating our men is afforded (says the Durban correspondent of the London Standard) by a recent incident. The Wounded of a certain battalion are being Cared for on board the hospital ship, and of these twenty had nearly recovered, but had not been officially certified as cured. The other day the whole twenty were missing, and on inquiry it was ascertained that when the second batie.i.Vivj pf their regiment arrived at Durban, t&^.iftftw^fffc oliip unobserved ibid themselves hi a coalsheduntil the feains began to leave, andboai'ded one of' them at ,he last minute. They have now rejoinod their orarade&rsai' the front. ""' ;■"■; :;^ :

After the battle of the, Tugela the Boers stripped the killed, and thus made it very difficult to identify tlgf^. officers who were among the dead, t > ■>- , ■ V".,.: - '~\